COSGROVE, John, a Representative from Missouri;
born near Alexandria Bay, Jefferson County, N.Y., September 12, 1839;
attended the district schools and the Redwood (N.Y.) School;
studied law in Watertown;
was admitted to the bar in October 1863 and commenced practice in New York;
moved to Boonville, Mo., in 1865 and continued the practice of law;
city attorney of Boonville in 1870 and 1871;
elected prosecuting attorney of Cooper County in 1872;
delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1872 and 1920;
again city attorney of Boonville from April 1877 to April 1878 and from April 1879 to April 1881;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885);
was renominated in 1884, but withdrew before election day;
resumed the practice of law in Boonville, Mo., where he died August 15, 1925;
interment in Walnut Grove Cemetery.